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Uni'rnn STATES HENRY POOL, OF WESTMINSTER, MARYLAND.

INSEC TICIDE COMPOUND.

$PECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No 295,426, dated March 18, 1884.

Application filed August 3, 1883. (No specimens.)

To will whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY PooL, of Westminster, in Carroll county, Maryland, have invented a new and useful composition of matter.

of the class known as Insecticides, of which the following is a specification.

My composition consists of the following ingredients, combined in the proportions stated, viz: lime, (air'slakerh) four quarts; plasterof-peris, four quarts; sulphate of ammonia, one pound; sugar, (pulverized,) two pounds; oil of worm-seed, one ounce; oil of sassafras, one ounce. These ingredients, except the oil of worinseed, are to be mixed together in any suitable manner, and then the oil of wormseed is to be poured into the mixture and the whole sifted through a sieve.

The powder is then to be dried, and used as other powder insecticides.

I am aware that lime, plaster-of-paris, and ammonia have been used in insecticides heretofore; but the combination with these of the oil of worm-seed is believed to add very material] y to the effectiveness of the com position. 

